Billy Elliot the Musical) also in the outstanding ensemble cast.
ATC Creative Director Colin McColl (ONZM) says, “We are lucky to have an actor of Michael Hurst’s calibre keen to take on this demanding role. His rigorous intellect, curious mind, consummate craft and physicality make him perfect to play Galileo. Far from being an austere, cloistered dry scientist, Galileo is an earthy, amusing, devious and flawed character, with a lust for life and discovery.”
In 17th century Europe, the famous and visionary mathematician, physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei found himself in hot water with the Catholic Church for supporting heliocentrism: the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun, not, as was the belief at the time, the other way around. He also proposed that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, as espoused by the church. Cue major drama.
Auckland Theatre Company’s
powerful theatre work
The Haka Party
Incident
The Haka Party
Incident, created and directed by renowned director,
actor and film-maker
Katie Wolfe (Ngāti
Mutunga, Ngāti Tama), is documentary theatre based on the
true event that changed race relations in Aotearoa forever:
a violent stoush between University of Auckland engineering
students and members of activist group He Taua.
Katie
Wolfe’s standout piece will be presented on the mainstage
at ASB Waterfront Theatre, as part of the 2021 Auckland Arts
Festival/Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki.
The Haka Party
Incident is ‘verbatim theatre’ - the script compiled
Press Release – Auckland Theatre Company
THE LAST NZ WAR HAPPENED IN 1979. IT LASTED 3 MINUTES.
Auckland Theatre Company’s powerful theatre work
The Haka Party Incident
The Haka Party Incident, created and directed by renowned director, actor and film-maker
Katie Wolfe (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama), is documentary theatre based on the true event that changed race relations in Aotearoa forever: a violent stoush between University of Auckland engineering students and members of activist group He Taua.
Katie Wolfe’s standout piece will be presented on the mainstage at ASB Waterfront Theatre, as part of the 2021 Auckland Arts Festival/Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki.